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start with don teminations, begin sanctions and get russia on our side to put pressure on the regime. that's most important thing we could do in countering the use of these weapons. >> brown: of. >> brown: all right, david kortright, kori schake, thank you very much. >> woodruff: still to come on the "newshour": congress steps in to get airlines back on time; u.s. clothing makers' efforts to keep foreign factory workers safe; shields and brooks analyze the week's newsnd lry tlin on country music legend, george jones. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: the surviving boston marathon bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev is now at a federal prison medical center. the 19-year-old was transferred overnight to a facility in central massachusetts 40 miles west of boston. he had been treated at boston's beth israel deaconess medical center since his arrest one week ago. tsarnaev is facing federal terror charges in the april 15th attack that killed three people and wounded more than 260. in afghanistan, 45 people died early today when a bus collided with
start with don teminations, begin sanctions and get russia on our side to put pressure on the regime. that's most important thing we could do in countering the use of these weapons. >> brown: of. >> brown: all right, david kortright, kori schake, thank you very much. >> woodruff: still to come on the "newshour": congress steps in to get airlines back on time; u.s. clothing makers' efforts to keep foreign factory workers safe; shields and brooks analyze the week's...
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. >> solman: at george mason university, 71-year-old writing professor don gallehr is still teaching too. >> if the kids are happy and learning and i'm happy and learning, i'm here. >> solman: and how long does 69- year-old boston university particle physicist larry sulak plan to keep blowing up protons? >> i have no idea. shelly is a good model. >> solman: that would be his 80- year-old colleague, nobel- winning physicist sheldon glashow. and when do you intend to retire? >> that i don't know. >> solman: america's work force is graying, and academia along with it. professors ov 65 have more than doubled since 2000. some 40% of all workers say they'll work past 65. in academia, however, a full 75% plan to work past a normal retirement age. historian claire potter is at the new school in new york. >> most of us believe that we should be able to work on our own terms for as long as we want. >> solman: potter blames lifetime tenure, meant to protect professors from political firings, and the legal end to mandatory retirement in 1994. but potter insists she'll be different. >> i'm going
. >> solman: at george mason university, 71-year-old writing professor don gallehr is still teaching too. >> if the kids are happy and learning and i'm happy and learning, i'm here. >> solman: and how long does 69- year-old boston university particle physicist larry sulak plan to keep blowing up protons? >> i have no idea. shelly is a good model. >> solman: that would be his 80- year-old colleague, nobel- winning physicist sheldon glashow. and when do you intend to...
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don cohn was the previous vice chairman. he retired in 2010, but he's kept busy since then and would be a more -- he's focused on unemployment, focused on financial stability, he brings experience as well. the question is does the president want to go with the obvious choice, the number two sitting there who and has continuity with the bernanke poll sneeze. >> ifill: until larry summers pulled out of this she was not the obvious choice, was she? >> back in the spring fed watchers were certain janet yellen was going to get the job then we got the rumblings that the president was leaning toward larry summers. just a week ago larry summers pulled out of the running so it appears janet yellen is the front-runner. >> ifill: if everybody waits to see what affect this will have on the economy, doesn't whoever the next fed chairman is -- isn't that person encountering the same plate of woes? >> absolutely. you know, there's not much reason to think that things are going to radically change in the economy in the next three or four mo
don cohn was the previous vice chairman. he retired in 2010, but he's kept busy since then and would be a more -- he's focused on unemployment, focused on financial stability, he brings experience as well. the question is does the president want to go with the obvious choice, the number two sitting there who and has continuity with the bernanke poll sneeze. >> ifill: until larry summers pulled out of this she was not the obvious choice, was she? >> back in the spring fed watchers...
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finally, 71-year-old george mason writing professor don galier. >> it's the fuferred year i'm here. >> galier paid about $35,000 in taxes including his university social security contribution. he has no plans to retire. >> last semester i had five students come up to me and said it was the best class they had ever had. so apparently i'm still good for my students. >> overall, 80% of americans 65 or over are working and paying taxes, a figure that doesn't include state income taxes. moreover, every extra percentage point of the workforce not retiring would mean at least another few billion dollars in revenues toward closing america's annual budget gap. >> it's good for the economy. >> university of southern california economist julie zisamopouis thinks, older americans working longer is simply good. why? >> how are we going to keep soarkts, how are we going to keep receiving the benefits that they have received in the past? in order to find these, we need workers, we need people paying taxes. >> it's a problem economists have worried about for decades. as the population has aged, the n
finally, 71-year-old george mason writing professor don galier. >> it's the fuferred year i'm here. >> galier paid about $35,000 in taxes including his university social security contribution. he has no plans to retire. >> last semester i had five students come up to me and said it was the best class they had ever had. so apparently i'm still good for my students. >> overall, 80% of americans 65 or over are working and paying taxes, a figure that doesn't include state...
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he's not a spy -- we don know if he's a spy at all, actually. but he's not someone running a private business and working as a spy. that kind of work outside of diplomatic protection can get you into a lot of trouble if you're caught, particularly diplomats that are caught, exposed and expelled. these kinds of things do happen with some frequency. >> it's 30 years since the end of the cold war yet every few years we have these spying exposés. what kind of information is the u.s. looking for now? >> well, both countriesare clearly still looking for classified military intelligence pertaining to the other country. you know, there's still two big military powers and they want that kind of information. russians for many, many years, going back at least to the 1930s have also been involved in industrial espionage in the united states and as we were talking, american intelligence agencies now are around great deal of pressure to come up with more information about radical extremist groups, particularly muslim groups, some of which have rootsnd connec
he's not a spy -- we don know if he's a spy at all, actually. but he's not someone running a private business and working as a spy. that kind of work outside of diplomatic protection can get you into a lot of trouble if you're caught, particularly diplomats that are caught, exposed and expelled. these kinds of things do happen with some frequency. >> it's 30 years since the end of the cold war yet every few years we have these spying exposés. what kind of information is the u.s. looking...
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i don believe, nor do any of my colleagues believe, that any organization-- political organization should be targeted solely because of their thought. that's on both sides of the spectrum. >> let me tee off of something, mr. miller, you said. you said, "foolish mistakes were made." i think the president actually said it better. he said that the handling of those tax-exempt applications in that process at the i.r.s. was outrageous and intolerable. no excuse. >> reporter: and as the four hour hearing drew to a close, there came a pledge from the chairman. >> i promise the american people, this investigation has just begun. >> reporter: the senate finance committee formally begins its investigation with a hearing next tuesday. >> brown: still to come on the "newshour": outrage over sexual assaults in the military; shields and brooks on the week's news and macneil and lehrer on covering watergate. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: wall street finished this friday with its fourth strait week of gains, aer new sig of pe aut the economy. one was a rep
i don believe, nor do any of my colleagues believe, that any organization-- political organization should be targeted solely because of their thought. that's on both sides of the spectrum. >> let me tee off of something, mr. miller, you said. you said, "foolish mistakes were made." i think the president actually said it better. he said that the handling of those tax-exempt applications in that process at the i.r.s. was outrageous and intolerable. no excuse. >> reporter:...
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those who ventured outside had to don face masks to protect themselves. the chinese government responded by ordering more than 100 factories to suspend production. it also told workers to cut car travel by a third. in u.s. economic news, home prices moved higher in november, at the strongest pace in six years. the standard and poors case- schilr index said new york was the only major city to report a decline. and on wall street, the dow jones industrial average gained 72 points to close at 13,954. the nasdaq fell a fraction of a point to close at 3153. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to gwen. >> ifill: we take a two-part look at president obama's choice to be the next secretary of defense. confirmation hearings for former nebraska senator chuck hagel are set for thursday. among other things, he is likely to face questions about the pentagon's looming budget crisis. automatic spending cuts set to take effect march 1 mean the defense department will have to find $52 billion in savings this year and half a trillion dollars over the next
those who ventured outside had to don face masks to protect themselves. the chinese government responded by ordering more than 100 factories to suspend production. it also told workers to cut car travel by a third. in u.s. economic news, home prices moved higher in november, at the strongest pace in six years. the standard and poors case- schilr index said new york was the only major city to report a decline. and on wall street, the dow jones industrial average gained 72 points to close at...
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don len, with mr. kerry, with mr. hagel and mr. brennan, that's a cohesive team. so now we've had two teams, a white house team and the secretary of state's team. this is now a single team. i think it going toe foced much more on those needed challenges. >> brown: well, the team but also the particular challenges it's facing because we can talk about the domestic economy but trouble spots are there, we report on them every night. >> i think the challenge will be -- i think it is a cohesive team. i think the question is whether more in the second term than the first whether the president and the white house is willing to empower these very capable cabinet officials and let them go out and try to solve some of these problems we have and give them political backi back he at home. secondly, i think there is a real prioritization issue. i would agree with zbig. it's really the middle east, asia and the economic instrument. i think he needs to focus on that. and third i think the challenge is also relationships between issues that tend to be stove piped. i'll give you a
don len, with mr. kerry, with mr. hagel and mr. brennan, that's a cohesive team. so now we've had two teams, a white house team and the secretary of state's team. this is now a single team. i think it going toe foced much more on those needed challenges. >> brown: well, the team but also the particular challenges it's facing because we can talk about the domestic economy but trouble spots are there, we report on them every night. >> i think the challenge will be -- i think it is a...
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in the way that i think means something to you >> ifill: don graham of the ceo of the soon to be renamed "washington post" company. thank you so much. >> thank you so much, gwen. good being with you. >> warner: the court martial of the army psychiatrist who opened fire on scores of fellow soldiers in 2009 got under way today at fort hood in texas. major nidal hasan is charged with many counts of murder and attempted murder for the attack that killed 13 people. and wounded more than 30. in an opening statement, the prosecutor said hasan had tried to "kill as many soldiers as he could." in his opening statement, hasan, who is representing himself, said, "the evidence will clearly show that i am the shooter." "los angeles times" reporter molly hennessey-fiske is covering the trial and joins us from fort hood. molly, welcome. let's start with that, the most dramatic moment of today which is colonel hasan admitting he was the shooter. what was that moment like? what else did he have to say? >> well, there were a lot of open questions going into these opening statements. it wasn't clear since
in the way that i think means something to you >> ifill: don graham of the ceo of the soon to be renamed "washington post" company. thank you so much. >> thank you so much, gwen. good being with you. >> warner: the court martial of the army psychiatrist who opened fire on scores of fellow soldiers in 2009 got under way today at fort hood in texas. major nidal hasan is charged with many counts of murder and attempted murder for the attack that killed 13 people. and...
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but some skeptics don' believe it. >> brown: plus, mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> support also comes from carnegie corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what andrew carnegie called "real and permanent good." celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnee.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and friends of the newshour. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> sreenivasan: a federal appeals court rejected several recess appointments made by president oba last year, saying the moves were unconstitutional. the president appointed three people to the national labor relations board last january. the president argued he was justified in doing so because the senate was away for a 20-day break. but republicans and business groups said the senate was still technically in session, if
but some skeptics don' believe it. >> brown: plus, mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> support also comes from carnegie corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what andrew carnegie called "real and permanent good." celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnee.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these...
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. >> wel th don need everybody. keep in mind, you-- what you need in the senate usually is 51 votes. we've gotten into this environment here where we assume that everything needs 60 votes. it doesn't have to be that way. you heard from senator harkin there, he and a bunch of other senate lib rarblingts shelton white house, al franken, jay rockefeller, other, huddled in harry reid's office earlier today. i was standing outside that room when they came out. they were tight-lipped. they were grim. they went into a side meeting all their own to try and decide what to do. they weren't talking when they came ou what you are looking for there is will they block this thing. will they slow it down. they haven't indicated that they will do that. they can vote against it as long as reid and mcconel can muster 51 vote force this thing. it appears if there are no procedural delay tactics which we can't afford that right now, they will be able to do that. that is the senate side. on the house side the question remains, this is a
. >> wel th don need everybody. keep in mind, you-- what you need in the senate usually is 51 votes. we've gotten into this environment here where we assume that everything needs 60 votes. it doesn't have to be that way. you heard from senator harkin there, he and a bunch of other senate lib rarblingts shelton white house, al franken, jay rockefeller, other, huddled in harry reid's office earlier today. i was standing outside that room when they came out. they were tight-lipped. they were...
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we're going to be able to get there and get it don we've already begun that process and we're going to keep on going until it's finished. >> woodruff: not long afterward came word that daniel werfel-- a white house budget official-- is being named acting commissioner of the i.r.s. the president had announced the forced resignation of his predecessor steven miller on wednesday evening. in their names, when they sought tax-exempt status. that followed revelations that the agency had zeroed ion groups with tea party or patriot in their names, when they sought tax-exempt status. in congress today, republicans welcomed miller's departure, but they said the investigations must continue. kentucky senator rand paul: >> someone needs to be held responsible. someone needs to be imprisoned. someone needs to be prosecuted. the resignation is a step in the right direction, but we need to find out who wrote this policy, who approved this policy, and they need to be held accountable. >> woodruff: back in the rose garden, the president alswas pressed about the justice department's subpoena of phone re
we're going to be able to get there and get it don we've already begun that process and we're going to keep on going until it's finished. >> woodruff: not long afterward came word that daniel werfel-- a white house budget official-- is being named acting commissioner of the i.r.s. the president had announced the forced resignation of his predecessor steven miller on wednesday evening. in their names, when they sought tax-exempt status. that followed revelations that the agency had zeroed...